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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

migrationwatchuk.org

An independent and non-political think tank concerned about the scale of immigration into the UK. | Migration Watch UK

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

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About Website

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Migration Watch UK is an independent and non-political body established in October 2001. Our purposes are to; monitor migration flows to and from the UK, provide to the press and public the most accur...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Migrationwatchuk.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

migrationwatchuk.org performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

migrationwatchuk.org

1173 ms

css

27 ms

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

styles-normalise.css

483 ms

styles-menu.css

474 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Migrationwatchuk.org, 76% (35 requests) were made to Static.migrationwatchuk.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Migrationwatchuk.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

866.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Migrationwatchuk.org main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 736.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 31.2 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 8.2 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 31.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 736.2 kB
  • After minification 719.0 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Migration Watch UK images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 192.9 kB

  • Original 317.3 kB
  • After minification 315.5 kB
  • After compression 124.5 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 192.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 55.7 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 60.2 kB
  • After compression 14.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Migrationwatchuk.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 55.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (39%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Migration Watch UK. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

migrationwatchuk.org

migrationwatchuk.org

1173 ms

css

css

27 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

styles-normalise.css

styles-normalise.css

483 ms

styles-menu.css

styles-menu.css

474 ms

tooltipster.css

tooltipster.css

474 ms

styles-mobile.css

styles-mobile.css

572 ms

styles-tablet.css

styles-tablet.css

487 ms

styles-desktop.css

styles-desktop.css

499 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

77 ms

highcharts.js

highcharts.js

884 ms

exporting.js

exporting.js

555 ms

jquery.tooltipster.min.js

jquery.tooltipster.min.js

643 ms

responsiveslides.min.js

responsiveslides.min.js

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respond.min.js

respond.min.js

597 ms

jquery.newsTicker.min.js

jquery.newsTicker.min.js

639 ms

scrolltopcontrol.js

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651 ms

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Accessibility Review

migrationwatchuk.org accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

migrationwatchuk.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

migrationwatchuk.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Migrationwatchuk.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Migrationwatchuk.org main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

migrationwatchuk.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Migration Watch UK. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: